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Jan 16, 2008 :: Like grits from the sky

Yes, those are snowflakes in my hair. Yes, I'm still in Atlanta.

Snow in Atlanta is an interesting thing. It's going to sound cliched, but the white stuff does strange things to Southerners. It's not unreasonable that it does, really. If the aurora borealis had suddenly shown up on the Ohio River Valley horizon when I was growing up, I'd have thought that pretty extraordinary too.

Anyway, under threat of the "white death" people around here get giddy; stand faces flushed and pointed skyward for long stretches; build fruitless, wet snowmush-people; drive more granny cautiously than any Atlantan ever would otherwise; throw sand out of pickup trucks over everything; and, my favorite, immediately empty the grocery stores of bread and milk.

I stood on the roof at work and looked at the familiar Buckhead skyline through a screen of pure winter glee.

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Rocking the House

A blog about 675 square feet of Atlanta, Georgia. Established 1886. Welcome to my house.

Southern Constitutional began in January 2008 as a two-city walking blog/collaboration between me and my very awesome friend Audrey in Muncie, Indiana. Our effort was only marginally successful. Actually, it kind of tanked miserably. But we did learn something: that while that kind of blog doesn't necessarily work for us, there are other kinds that do. This year, I will be writing about renovation, reclamation, and architectural redemption. Audrey, on the other hand now writes about marvelous geekery at Geeks Have All The Fun.